(05/08) Nov 25 & Dec 16, Attention I/II (st)
Topics addressed in the lecture:
- What is attention ?
- Distinguishing attention from arousal
- Demonstrations of perceptual effects of attention
- Quantitative studies of attention
- Diseases of attention
- Neural basis of attention
Examples for question you should be able to answer:
- Describe the Cocktail-Party-Effekt in attention research
- Desribe the dependency of reaction times on the number of distractors in parallel and in serial visual search experiments.
- Which region of the brain is typically lesioned in patients with the neglect syndrome?
- What is meant by 'multiplicative modulation' in the context of attentional effects on cortical information processing?
Important concepts:
- attention vs. arousal
- central bottleneck
- dichotic listening experiments
- visual search experimental paradigm, simple vs. conjunctive search
- Posner experimental paradigm
- Neglect syndrome